• State Violence:
Perspectives on state violence
from its victims and former combatants of the conflict.

• Republican Violence: Perspectives on republican
violence from its victims and former combatants of the conflict.

•Loyalist Violence:
Perspectives on loyalist
violence from its victims and former combatants of the conflict.

The strands have been constructed to ground the exploration in the reality of
violent conflict. Each strand is introduced by a piece of film which dramatises
violence. Strand 1 begins with an overview of incidents involving the use of
violence by all sides while illustrating its dehumanising effects. In the
subsequent strands the first testimony to follow the dramatisation is always
that of a victim of that violence speaking about it. This in turn is followed by
the testimony of an advocate of that violence. Other testimonies of victims and
former combatants follow to challenge or support the violence and each strand
concludes with a clip which, for the given perspective, represents tangible
evidence of the validity of their case for their use of physical force.